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Tauros in greek is bull, yeah. The minotaur was the Bull of Minos. It may link back to the pre-greek people of crete, known for bull-leaping.

The “ken” in “Kentauros” is thought to mean piercing, but why is a piercing bull a half man/horse? There’s no obvious explanation.

I love the idea of -tauros coming to mean a monstrous combination, like franken- in english. But if there were any evidence of that some very excited nerds would’ve told us, I’m sure.

Personally, I say sen tore.

According to my classics professor ~20 years ago, we can’t know how “au” would’ve been pronounced in the greek.

He told us that ancient greek diphthong pronunciation is just made up. Apparently it’s much harder to reconstruct those sounds confidently, but that didn’t stop past classicists from claiming their reckonings as incontrovertible facts. Oxford and cambridge used to expell students for following the diphthong pronunciations of the other, but both are basically guesses.

In Australia it’s shortened to “Sepo”.

I only have it on PS4 so I can’t even get 2.0 + Phantom Liberty till I can afford a new gaming computer. Even using the old systems it’s such a great game.

The characters are very thoughtfully written, the atmosphere is top notch, and the themes of control and power are well reflected in the main plot and a host of side quests.

The neighborhoods all feel like unique parts of a whole, and the surprising verticality of the city makes it fun to explore, especially once you get legs upgrades.

Bikes are more fun than cars, so definitely be thinking of Akira and stick to 2 wheels when you can. Shooting people through walls or around corners is pretty fun, as is rebooting people’s eyes or taking over the heavy turret of some unsuspecting defenders.

It’s clever, catchy and appropriate for the historical moment.

When an illegitimate fascist coup accuses you of domestic terrorism, it’s because you’re doing the right thing.

I’m not racist, some of my best slaves are black.

Wait y’all can pick the correct thing out of your pocket regularly? I’d say I have a 10-20% error rate. At least once a week I’m standing in front of the staff room door wondering why my car key is in my hand.

Our russian controlled white house will probably host several more PR stunts like this as they work towards their goal of fully cutting off US aid to ukraine.

I think it makes more sense to look at this as the latest step in that plan, rather than an unexpected event that with uncertain consequences to puzzle over. If this particular stunt was axed at the last minute, the situation in 6-12 months would likely be the exact same.

Ukraine was never going to accept a shakedown attempt from a proven welcher working for their enemy, nor agree to a full russian victory just because it was called peace.

WC3 also spawned the tower defense genre. But WOW just has a much wider and deeper influence, both in- and outside of video games.

All mainstream social media is owned by the rich who support the fascist coup and work to protect it.

Barely half the country votes, barely half of them voted for this, and substantially less than that actually understood what was going on.

When I was like 9 or 10 I thought our neighbor was at the door so I jumped out in my home made samurai pizza cats outfit, yelling “samurai pizza cats, they’re so bad!”, presuming that he was there to play samurai pizza cats.

Turned out to be a boy from my class at school collecting money for something. He proceeded to blackmail me, getting my lunch in exchange for keeping my dorkiness hush-hush.

Fascist coups succeed when the rich have bought into the coup.

Why would the rich seizing full control of the state make the stock market go down?

Through UCLA’s Technology Transfer Group, which transforms brilliant research into global market products, the scientists have co-founded a medical development company called Pelage Pharmaceuticals

In case you were curious how this publicly funded research is going to be turned into private profits.

All day. Usually getting worse over the course of the day. Even a relatively mild hangover in the morning would be killing me by early evening.

Nothing helps it either. I’ve always eaten before drinking. Staying on top of hydrating while and after drinking has no noticable effect.

Our explanations for the behavior of outsiders say more about our beliefs than theirs.

Even explanations that feel correct to us are almost certainly wrong in important ways.

There’s plenty of scholarship on the various reasons people support fascism, that’s probably your best chance for a full answer.

Faith and Spike were the much cooler bearded-evil-dimension versions of Buffy and Angel, for sure.

I watched for Willow, Giles, Cordelia and Spike.

I used to joke that spike should vamp faith, then together they kill buffy and rename the show: Faith and Spike, the Vampires.

As a Buffy fan I’m quite excited. But sarah michelle gellar is just not a drawcard for me. What’s to be excited about? She played the least interesting character and did a mostly adequate job of it.

Capitalism can’t innovate.